[Cryptography] ADMIN Re: Amateur Radio Authentication

[ianG]

On 31/03/2014 00:51 am, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Tamzen Cannoy <tamzen at cannoy.org> writes:
> 
>> I'm ending the thread on amateur radio with the exception of using it as an
>> example. Let's not rathole into the tech of radio, unless it directly relates
>> to crypto.
> 
> Can I vote to have it reopened?


+1

> It's a fascinating perspective on a form of
> communication that crypto folks more or less ignore (or, more likely, don't
> know exists), so having some discussion of it will help balance the usual
> "assume infinite bandwidth with possibly a bit of latency" assumptions applied
> to anything involving encryption.


Yes, it's a nice reflection of what people need and we can't provide.
Or can we?


> Case in point, from a current debate on the
> TLS list:
> 
>   Documenting use cases is an unnecessary distraction from doing actual work.
>   You'll note that our charter does not say "enumerate applications that want
>   to use TLS".


!    Is that... *everything that is wrong with TLS* in only two sentences?

> (Yes, someone actually said that).


Right now, entirely believable.  Tomorrow, who knows?



iang